Acts 22:5

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

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WEBBE

as also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and travelled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

BSB

as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.

KJV

As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

ASV

As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and journeyed to Damascus to bring them also that were there unto Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

BBE

Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.

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ὡς hōs as G5613 καὶ kai also G2532 ὁ ho the G3588 ἀρχιερεὺς archiereus high priest G749 μαρτυρεῖ marturei bears witness G3140 μοι moi to me G3165 καὶ kai and G2532 πᾶν pan all G3956 τὸ to the G3588 πρεσβυτέριον presbuterion elderhood G4244 παρ par᾽ from G3844 ὧν hōn whom G3739 καὶ kai also G2532 ἐπιστολὰς epistolas letters G1992 δεξάμενος dexamenos having received G1209 πρὸς pros to G4314 τοὺς tous the G3588 ἀδελφοὺς adelphous brothers G80 εἰς eis to G1519 Δαμασκὸν Damaskon Damascus G1154 ἐπορευόμην eporeuomēn I was on my way G4198 ἄξων axōn going to bring G71 καὶ kai also G2532 τοὺς tous those G3588 ἐκεῖσε ekeise there G1566 ὄντας ontas being G1510 δεδεμένους dedemenous bound G1210 εἰς eis to G1519 Ἰερουσαλὴμ Ierousalēm Jerusalem G2419 ἵνα ina in order that G2443 τιμωρηθῶσιν timōrēthōsin they may be punished G5097

The early church

The rest, however, was without witnesses: "From whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished. And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me." Why then, these very things ought to have been held worthy of credit, from those that went before: otherwise he would not have undergone such a revolution. How if he is only making a fine story of it, say you? Answer me, Why did he suddenly fling away all this zeal? Because he looked for honor? And yet he got just the contrary. But an easy life, perhaps? No, nor that either. Well but something else? Why it is not in the power of thought to invent any other object. So then, leaving it to themselves to draw the inference, he narrates the facts. "As I came nigh," he says, "unto Damascus, about noonday." See how great was the excess of the light. What if he is only making a fine story, say you? Those who were with him are witnesses, who led him by the hand, who saw the light.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–11

The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was wholly the act of God. Condemned sinners are struck blind by the power of darkness, and it is a lasting blindness, like that of the unbelieving Jews. Convinced sinners are struck blind as Paul was, not by darkness, but by light. They are for a time brought to be at a loss within themselves, but it is in order to their being enlightened. A simple relation of the Lord's dealings with us, in bringing us, from opposing, to profess and promote his gospel, when delivered in a right spirit and manner, will sometimes make more impression that laboured speeches, even though it amounts not to the full proof of the truth, such as was shown in the change wrought in the apostle.

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Acts 9:1–2

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